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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

For each valid genus, the valid species are listed, Recent taxa first.

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genus Pisidium Pfeiffer, 1821: valid species
     19 nominal genera as synonyms | Cladomics

Pisidium alticola (Kobelt, 1913)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: New Guinea. [Australasia]

Pisidium amnicum (Müller, 1774)
17 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Widespread from Europe to the Amur Basin, eastern Russia. Introduced to the Laurentian Great Lakes and Cairo. Possibly in other parts of Africa. [Afrotropics, East Asia, North America, North Eurasia]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1.
Nature Serve: G5.

Pisidium amurense Moskvicheva in Zatravkin, 1985
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Russian Far East and Sakhalin Island. [East Asia]

Pisidium armillatum Kuiper, 1966
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Kenya. [Afrotropics]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, H3.
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.

Pisidium artifex Kuiper, 1960
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Kenya. [Afrotropics]
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable.

Pisidium aucklandicum Suter, 1907
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: New Zealand. [Australasia]

Pisidium behningi (Izzatullaev & Starobogatov, 1986)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Central Asia. [North Eurasia]

Pisidium bejumae H.B. Baker, 1930
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Venezuela and Brazil. [South America]

Pisidium betafoense Kuiper, 1953
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Madagascar. [Afrotropics]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.

Pisidium boliviense Sturany, 1900
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Amazon, Brazil. [South America]

Pisidium chatyrkulense (Izzatullaev & Starobogatov, 1986)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Central Asia. [North Eurasia]

Pisidium chicha Ituarte, 2005
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Northern Argentina. [South America]

Pisidium chiquitanum Ituarte, 2001
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Central Bolivia to northern Argentina. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 1895
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Great Lakes and Interior Basin, North America. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.
Nature Serve: G4?.

Pisidium decurtatum (Lindholm, 1909)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Baikal Lake and the Yenisei River. [North Eurasia]

Pisidium dilatatum Westerlund, 1897
11 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Northern Europe to Kamchatka. [East Asia, North Eurasia]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, ITS1.
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium dorbignyi Clessin, 1879
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium dubium (Say, 1817)
7 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Widespread in eastern North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, 5.8S.
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.
Nature Serve: G5.

Pisidium fistulosum Mandahl-Barth, 1954
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Endemic to Lake Victoria. [Afrotropics]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium forense Meier Brook, 1967
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Southern Brazil. [South America]

Pisidium gafurovi (Izzatullaev & Starobogatov, 1986)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Central Asia. [North Eurasia]

Pisidium globulus Clessin, 1888
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Southern Brazil. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.

Pisidium harrisoni Kuiper, 1964
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Endemic to South Africa. [Afrotropics]
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.

Pisidium huillichum Ituarte, 1999
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Chile. [South America]

Pisidium idahoensis Roper, 1890
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Great Lakes west to the Pacific, North America. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Pisidium idahoense).
Nature Serve: G5 (Pisidium idahoense).

Pisidium inacayali Ituarte, 1996
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Patagonia, Argentina. [South America]

Pisidium invenustum Kuiper, 1966
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Tanzania. [Afrotropics]
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.

Pisidium iquito Ituarte, 2004
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Amazon Basin, Peru. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium issykkulense (Izzatullaev & Starobogatov, 1986)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Central Asia. [North Eurasia]

Pisidium jamaicense Prime, 1865
3 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Caribbean. [Central America]

Pisidium johnsoni E.A. Smith, 1882
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Madagascar. [Afrotropics]
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable.

Pisidium kawamurai Mori, 1938
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Japan. [East Asia]

Pisidium lebruni Mabille, 1884
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Punta Arenas, Chile. [South America]

Pisidium llanquihuense Ituarte, 1999
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Chile. [South America]

Pisidium magellanicum (Dall, 1908)
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Southern Patagonia, Argentina and Chile. [South America]

Pisidium meierbrooki Kuiper & Hinz, 1984
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Area around Lake Titicaca north to Cuzco, Peru, Bolivia and northern Chile. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium montigenum Kuiper, 1966
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Kenya and Uganda. [Afrotropics]
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened.

Pisidium observationis Pilsbry, 1911
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Argentina and Southern Brazil. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.

Pisidium ocloya Ituarte, 2005
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Northern Argentina. [South America]

Pisidium omaguaca Ituarte, 2005
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Northern Argentina. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium orientale Prozorova, 1995
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Russian Far East. [East Asia]
Genbank sequences: 16S.

Pisidium pamirense (Izzatullaev & Starobogatov, 1986)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Central Asia. [North Eurasia]

Pisidium parenzani Gambetta, 1930
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Lake Ohrid, Albania and Macedonia. [North Eurasia]

Pisidium patagonicum Pilsbry, 1911
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Patagonia, Argentina. [South America]

Pisidium pipoense Ituarte, 2000
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Parana Basin in Argentina. [South America]

Pisidium plenilunium (Melvill & Standen, 1907)
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Argentina. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.

Pisidium punctatum Sterki, 1895
5 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Widespread in North America. [North America]
Nature Serve: G5 (Pisidium simplex).

Pisidium punctiferum (Guppy, 1867)
4 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Tropical North and South America. [Central America, North America, South America]
Nature Serve: G4G5.

Pisidium reticulatum Kuiper, 1966
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Zambezi Basin, Africa and Madagascar. [Afrotropics]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium sanguinichristi Taylor, 1987
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Known only from Middle Fork Lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Taos County, New Mexico (Rio Grande Basin). [North America]
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable.
Nature Serve: G1 Under Review.

Pisidium taraguyense Ituarte, 2000
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Argentina and Uruguay. [South America]

Pisidium vegae Pilsbry, 1926
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Mexico. [Central America]

Pisidium vile Pilsbry, 1897
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Paraná Basin, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. [South America]
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.

Pisidium volutabundum Vanatta, 1910
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Bermuda. [North America]

Pisidium wolfii Clessin in Miller, 1879
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Ecuador. [South America]

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